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May 6, 2021 · Nine-year-old Patrick Rooney - the first child killed in the Troubles - was hit in his bedroom by one of the shots fired to disperse rioters at Divis flats.
Nov 18, 2019 · Nine year old Patrick Rooney had the distinction of being the first child to be killed in the Troubles, the victim of a stray RUC bullet on August 15, 1969.
The 14th of August 2018 marked the 49th anniversary of the death of the first child to die in the Troubles—nine-year-old Patrick Rooney, shot dead in his home in Belfast in 1969. It was also the anniversary of the death of another child victim, twelve-year-old Majella O’Hare.
In the 1981 Irish hunger strike, ten republican prisoners (seven from the Provisional IRA and three from the INLA) died of starvation. The first hunger striker to die, Bobby Sands, was elected to Parliament on an Anti-H-Block ticket, as was his election agent Owen Carron following Sands's death.
"On 15th August 1969, nine-year-old Patrick Rooney became the first child killed as a result of the 'Troubles' - one of 186 children who would die in the conflict in Northern Ireland. Fifty years on, these young lives are honoured in a memorable book that spans a singular era.
On 15th August 1969, nine-year-old Patrick Rooney became the first child killed as a result of the 'Troubles' - one of 186 children who would die in the conflict in Northern Ireland. Fifty years on, these young lives are honoured in a memorable book that spans a singular era.
A mother from west Belfast is interviewed at Gormanston Camp in County Meath. This was August 1971, when internment without trial was introduced and 10 people were shot dead in Ballymurphy. In...
